From the Economist:
Obamaworld is a universe of liberal professionals and young people -- plus blacks from all economic segments. Hillaryland, by contrast, is a place of working-class voters, particularly working-class women, and the old. These are people who occupy not just different economies but also different cultures.
How many white Obama voters eat in Cracker Barrel or Bob Evans? And how many Clinton voters have a taste for sushi?
Those groups could hardly have a more different view of politics. Obama's supporters are, mostly, the liberal version of "values voters." They are intensely worried about America's past sins and its current woeful image in the world. They regard Obama as a "transformational" leader -- a man who can, with one sweep of his hand, wipe away the sins of the Bush years and summon up the best in their country.
Clinton's supporters, by contrast, are kitchen-table voters. They wear jackets emblazoned with the logos of their unions. They work with their hands or stand on their feet all day. They have seen their living standards stagnate for years, and they are worried about paying their bills rather than saving their political souls.
I hate sushi, I know what he means, and I want to explore this idea further when I have some time. I want also to try to relate it to the films Raging Bull, Gone Baby Gone, Mystic River, and Good Will Hunting, which all in their different ways explore what it means to live in the world this writer thinks belongs mainly to Clinton. And I want to explore the idea of embedded vs. disembedded as a way of getting to the heart of the difference between the two worlds described in the quote above. I didn't come from that world. Ordinary People and The Ice Storm depict the world I grew up in more accurately. But I married a woman who grew up in a world where Jake LaMotta was the neighborhood hero. So you might say I've devoted a good part of my life to figuring out how the two can work together. More on this when I get my grades in.